Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:55:26 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <1141296795453.20040819105526@familiehaase.de> To: Thomas Berger , cygwin@cygwin.com CC: Stephan Petersen , ThB.com@t-online.de, freeweb@nyckelpiga.de Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails In-Reply-To: <4123B56F.6010003@gymel.com> References: <41235C84.7060300@gtt-technologies.de> <4123B56F.6010003@gymel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Thomas schrieb: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > Hi Stephan & Gerrit, > My original reply to the cygwin list somehow did not arrive, > thus the personal mail. > | I just ran "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and tried to install Bundle::LWP. > | > | But when it does "Scanning cache /home/sp/.cpan/build for sizes", see > below, it chokes with (see output below): > | > | /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header > | /usr/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > | gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > | gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error > | > | > | I removed all ~/.cpan stuff, tried it again, no difference. > | > | Does anybody have an idea what's going on? > I had the same problem but could not quite nail it down to either > a shell issue or one of the cywwin1.dll: > cpan.pm executes a system call > ~ system("$CPAN::Config->{gzip} -dc $read > $write")==0; > This > gzip -dc input > output > injects DOS Line breaks to output and thus corrupts the resulting > tarfile (gzip -d works correctly, it seems to be a matter with > the STDOUT redirection). > I've been playing with binmode settings and different shells to no > avail (but I'm not at all proficient in that area). > The Solution was to install Compress::Zlib by hand (actually by > temporarily tweaking cpan.pm to > ~ system("$CPAN::Config->{gzip} -d $read")==0; > in the line above): With Compress::Zlib installed cpan.pm does not > any more try to employ gzip. The perl package distributed via the cygwin mirrors already includes Compress::Zlib, so there should be no problems with a fresh perl installation. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/